sary equipment and men, it was thrown down deliberately, and at the ggestion of some one "higher up." Whe this one is has not ye* ben re- venied. For thera is nothing sacred about him, and apparently there is no reason why he shouid be screened. Tue whole dirty business is so dis- reputable that it is amazing a re- spectable Canadian paper can be found to defend it. The government's wastefulness in public printing will never be removed or reduced until a corps of editors can be appointed to blue pencil and consolidate the public reports. . BRITAIN'S FOOD SUPPLY. Sir Leo Chiozza Money is not an alarmist, but an acknowledged au- thority on financial and commercial subjects, He has written many timely articles during the war. His last deals with the subjéct of pro- visioning Britain against any crisis that may occur during the subma- t rine crusade which the Germans are carrying on. Writing to Every- man, Sir Leo says that in April of last year he advised the arming of 292 | the merchantmen as one means of 0 | cessfully. printing on n ooh bei jo TORONTO REPRESENTATIVE si a * , New_York 236 Fifth Ave. Frank R. Northrup, Manager: Frank BR. Northrup, Er A ROUT IN QUEBEC. The expected is happening in Que- bec. Tuc Gouin government has, by acclamations,already twenty support- ers, and if the contests on Monday next end as they arc likely to do, the Liberal majority will be as great as, if not greater than, it was in the last house. And this will not be a good thing for the government. A strong ition ig ry in Quebec, and it will never materialize under the leadership of the. men who have been experimenting with the job. Mr. Cousinean's tactics during the recent campaign have certainly not popu- larized him. He is not worthy of a large following. He is not discreet in his language. He is given to the abuse of his opponents, and abuse by any one, anywhere, is not calculat- ed to win the favor of sensible men. -------- Harry Lauder is off for Europe, and proposes to give $500,000--of his time----to the service of. the men "at the front. He will give away a little chin music, but nothing more. Harry believes in the motto, "What I have I'l hold." FIGHTING THE ONE MILL TAX. One of the big surprises in the po- litical situation is the violence or the attack mmde by the conservative mayor of Toronto on the jrovincial government over the special one mill tax, which applies equally all over the province. Mayor Church not only declares that the tax is illegal and unconstitutional, but claims that the Ontario government is rot even spending the money so raised ex- clusively for war purposes, Whether or not Mayor Church is right in his contention, the import- ant phase of the matter is that, again in this case, the government would not have had to lay this heavy extra burden.en the people if they had managed the finances more economically. The Mail and Empire, (conserva- tive), links up Mayor Church's at- tack on the government with the growing antagonism between the government and the municipalities of the province on the question of the management of the Hydro Elec- tric Commission, in other words, the MoGarry-Beck feud. Even this government organ, therefore, recognizes the widening breach between the municipalities and the government which obviously must endanger the very safety of the government's tenure of power, Arthur Hawkes is right. Politics ought to mean more than job find- ing and profiteering. The science of politics ig the science of good gov- ernment by good men with good plans. This is not the ordinary idea, but it is the correct one. A WEAK EXCUSE. Had the Shel! (Committee the time it might have itself secured the formation of compurnics fo make not only fuses, but other munitions re- quired, and saved som: profits as well as commissions. © it was pressed, and it did what promised returns at the earliest date. That is all that has yet been shown. and it may be all that will be shown.----Montreal Gasette. Here is a weak apology for a very guarding against submarine attack. His proposition was ridiculed, but it was acted apon by the admiralty, and to that fact is due the salvation of many merchantmen. They have been able to defend themselves suc- Now Sir Leo makes two further suggestions. Fisrt, he thinks the government should take command of all the shipping, and, under the direction of the admiralty, use it in laying in stores of food which will protect the people from any contin- gency of the war. Next, he would have the shipbuilding continued with all the energy possible, and on the ground that at the best there can scarcely be as many new craft put in commission as there are of craft be- ing destroyed. In one week recently thirty ships were sunk, If the submarine cam- paign be continued, and enlarged, the time may come when the losses will be a hundred per week. In order to guard against all "this the shipping should be put. under the ad- miralty,- and it should increase the activities of the air and sea defences and make the food supply an issue of national importance. Sir Leo writes plainly, but without desiring to cre- ate any public alarm. The navy is invincible, and he wants to use it wore and more for the purposes of trade and defence, and no one will gainsay his advice. There is one conservative paper that is not afraid to follow out Sir William Meredith's advice and ¢all a spade a spade. This is the To- ronto Telegram, and it is not influ- enced by any financial considera- tion. SIGNS OF THE TIMES. The Bishop of Kingston has put into printed form a series of ser- mons which he recently delivered, and dealing with '"'the present crisis." The discussion of the "Signs of the Times" is the most suggestive. The leading thoughts are not new. They were made the subject of a discus- sion with the editor of the Whig not sv long ago. But their repetition rivets them upon the mind as-seme other thoughts from friends at thé front, and close to the theatre of war, have been made impressive, The Church does well to counsel as to what it should, or must, do with the many thousands who may return from the battle line and take up anew in Canada the labor of life. Many of these soldiers have already undergone an experience; that has completely changed their view of the world. They write to friends in no unhappy or pessimistic manner. Their vision of duty, of sevice, of sacrifice, has been entirely changed, and Can- ada, and Canada's churches, must be ready for this new view point it there is to be any permanent benefit from their philosophy. The Bishop of Kingston advises the churchmen to study the. signs of the times. These signs teach that the Church has been-astray in the training of her people for the work of the day. They have not learned to endure hardness; they have been encouraged in self-indulgence; they have avoided disagreeable duties; they have followed the line of the least resistance; they put too high an estimate on money and have made it, in place of God, the object of their worship. The Eternal One has, through the war, been calling his people to account. The result must be an awakening to the duties of the hour, to usefulness, to power, to prayer, and to répentance. The good bishop foresees the dethrone- ment of Mammon. "Surely God," said he, "has made it plain that nei- ther money nor the men who worship money. are destined to rule the world or to play a part in His great de- «| signs." One is left in some uncertainty as to the fercefulness of the bishop's concluding words. Money has been the root of &ll evil, even in a war. To afford it the place which this war de- mands the people have been advised to save all they can, and some know what it is to follow faithfully this i' in the crime, reveal. | regard to this has been seen profligacy, the waste, the which the records of the day EDITORIAL NOTES. Fancy a loss of $50,000 in proof corrections, in amending the matter in the government reports and docu- ments, after it has bene put in print, A little care, and a little editing, as as far as the copy is concerned, would save all this, The Toronto Bureau of Municipal Research spent about $30,000 in} making discoveries during {he last couple of years, and wh has it found? Tommy Church rules with the crudest of ideas that any man! can have, and he seems to represent the enlightened sentiment of the com- munity. -- The provincial treasurer boasts that the Ontario government has spent $43,000 in recruiting in this province. How much of this money has been spent in Kingston? What regiments or units have received the bene fit of it? The government can- not afford to miss any credit for what it is doing. Ben -------- . Rev. M. G. Johnston, the rector of Trinity Episcopal Church, New York. has resigned rather than qualify his sermons and make them acceptable to some of his parishioners. They disliked his reference to them a "sinners," and he knew of no other word that fitted into their lives and habits so well. The Whig has heard about preach- ers who were expected to study their congregations before they launched their denunciations against sin and society, but not until a New York cage occurred recently was there any visible evidence of the truth of this statement. The man in the pulpit, it seems, must go softly in his public discourses. The "Ifs" Again. (Ottawa Journal.) If Canada had had a minister of munitions to look after Canadian in- terests there would have been ng room for men like Allison, who are chiefly concerned in getting rich fast, or like Carnegie, whose last thought seems to have been that of giving "adequate protection" to Canadian manufacturers. Premier Borden's Load. (Ottawa Free Press.) And so the Canadian Manufactur- ers' Association through their official paper are getting after Tory leaders and their conduct of the shell game. Little by little we are beginning to understand ' what the Toronto News meant the other day when it said that Premier Borden's burdens were get- ting intolerable. Not Worthy of Him. (Montreal Herald.) po Sir George Foster's misrepresenta- tion of Mr. Graham's reference to the increase in recruiting that might re- sult if the bi-lingual difficulty were settled was a contemptibly small right well that his working partner in 1911, Armand Lavergne, and those of his ilk, were carrying on a propa- ganda against recruiting, giving as their reason the bi-lingual trouble, and he knew, just as well, that Mr. Graham's reference was to this. Sir George was the first man deliberately to lower the tone of the debate on this most serious question, and it was wholly unworthy of him and of the occasion. ------------ Railways in Deep Waters. (Windsor Record.) A study of the financial statements of the C. N. R. and G. T. P. as sub- mitted to parliament, emphasizes the magnitude of the problem before the country in finding some permanent solution of the railway situation. The Canadian Northern statement lshows a floating indebtedness of $92,- 460,883, a total bonded indebtedness of $358,770,798, and fixed charges exclusive of subsidiary company and land securities, now amounting to $12,989,069 per year. Net earn- ings for the last fiscal year, with re- newal and equipment accounts still to be considered, amounting to only $7,088,160, The Grand Trunk Pacific state- ment shows a total interest payment to be met during 1916 and 1917 of $12,924,271, a total bonded indebt- edness of $193,261,104, with loss in operation of branch lines; . $300,000. Against this there are net earnings of only $600,000 on the Prairie Di- vision, and $600,000 rental from the Lake Superior Branch. ------ janes EVENTS 26 YEARS ACO The 14th band has thirty-three mu- sicians. Steamer Maud towed three grain- laden barges to Prescott, and made the round trip in ten hours. Police Constable Timmerman. re- ports that the dirtiest yards are in rear of business places in the heart of the city. General Hospital Board announces that it is against the regulations of the hospital for any of the nurses to receive gratuities, LIBERAL PRESS. Contest of Leaders. (Ottawa Free Press.) Sir Robert Borden is perfectly cor- rect when he asserts that the Do- minion Parliament has no right to dictate to a province and that prob- ably Quebec stands to lose most by a departure from the strict line of pro- vincial autonomy. But having said this, are we any nearer to the removal of the powder barrel? The speech of Sir Wilfrid Laurier was a plea. It was a speech that, if made by an English-speaking Ca- nadian of the same eminence, would have been hailed by any man who appreciates the seriousness of the sit- uation as the voice of wisdom, as the voice of Canadian patriotism, as the voice of a hero whese one thought and aim was the removal of the pow- der barrel that threatens his beloved country with a dreadful horror. It was the voice of an old man, a vet- eran statesman who has been ready these half dozen years to lay down the public burden that he has borne for a quarter of a century. It was a speech that will survive in Cana- dian history--that is if Canadian his- tory is not to be swallowed up in the triumph of the Hun. It was an appeal for sanity--sanity in Quebec, piece of work. Sir George knew sanity in Ontario. -------- Random Reels "Of Shoes and Ships, and Seallag Wax, of Cabbages and Kings." THE MASSAGE. The massage is an attempt to beau- tify man by giving him the ruddy and ornate complexion of the boiled lobster: Some men are naturally endowed with a bright pink gom- plexion, particularly in the region of the nose, and cannot be massaged without resembling the headlight of a Mogul engine, while others leave the chair with the dull reddish hue of the Kickapoo squaw. When the massage is . properly performed by a highly-muscled bar- ber, it is guarantked to banish wrin- kles, crow's feet and sleep at one fell swoop. Nobody ever went to sleep in a barber's chair just: prior to a whole-souled massage without waking up immediately afterward with the sensation of being on fire from the Adam's apple up. This is because the massage never does its perfect work unless it is applied at a temperature that would make boil- ing pitch look as cold as a woman suffrage audience in a wet town. Af- ter a man has been overlaid with thirty-five cents' worth of hot mas- sage, he will have some new and valuable ideas about the future state toward which he is tending. It costs money to buy a massage, because it is necessary to expend a good deal of pink salve and elbow grease, along with four coarse-grain- ed Turkish towels. These tgwels are applied in rapid succession, af- ter being charged with live steam, and if allowed to settle down on all four feet will raise blisters faster than sliding down a hay rope. In is a heart-rending experience to be massaged by an absent-minded bar- ber who has just come in from the hay field with calloused hands, and who piles on the towels until the cus- tomer has to breathe through his ears, like a fish. This is why it is always better to be massaged by a lady barber, who knows mbre than to undermine a good, serviceable complexion, which is harder to re- place than confidence in a busted stock company, The barber always knows when a customer is in love, for -he wants to be massaged four times a week and be left looking like a peony bed. The courts have held that when a mar- ried man has a face massage often- er than once in three weeks it is prima facie evidence that he is liv- ing a dual life, If more wives would make a note-book entry of ev- ery time their husband has a massage and brandish it in his face, there would be less gallivanting on the part of restless and untamed married men. nn, Rippling Rhymes DANDELIONS Upon my la wn, I know not why, the dandelions thrive; the grass may all curl up and die, but they'll reman alive, I've tried about a million plans; to have the vile things slain; and all the schemes were - also-rans and all my efforts vain. that I bought, at The fair petunias fabulous expense, the sweet begonias that I brought and planted by the fence, the tulips from the Netherlands, they all but still the dandelion stands, My vine and figtree withered have died the death, disfiguring. the heath; are, the rosebush passed away, the fern that grew in yonder jar shows symptoms of decay; the lilac, When the nights were cold, turned up lion bold, its streak were desired, if gardener aspired to raise them by the tom, plalty death, they'd languish from their birth, and perish from the earth, Sten, Qui Massy, | el at the slightest breath, and its tender toes, and still the dande- of yellow shows," If dandelions they would bring in mon, if every they'd shriv- ~ To-day we place on sale Seventy-five Dozen Shirts made by Canada's best shirt makers -- $1.00, $1.25 Shirts - For 69c Every Shirt guaranteed first quality. 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